Monday 9 September 2013

NGC Update Service: September 9, 2013

National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)

September 9, 2013


New This Week

Guideline Summaries

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

Announcements

NGC Spotlight

New clinician and consumer guides added! Visit the AHRQ Evidence Reports page for a listing of reports produced under AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Program and Effective Health Care Program.

Revised Inclusion Criteria

NGC has revised its Inclusion Criteria! Visit our updated Inclusion Criteria page to see the new criteria and send us your comments.

Health Awareness Topics - September 2013

Conference News

  • The Guidelines International Network North America (G-I-N NA) continues to sponsor a monthly webinar series on topics of interest to the North American guideline community. Information on upcoming webinars, as well as audio files and slides from past webinars, is available on the G-I-N Web site.

    This month's topic, Clinical Practice Guidelines Adaptation will take place on Thursday September 12, 2013 at 12:00-1:30 p.m. (Pacific) 3:00-4:30 p.m. (Eastern). Information on how to join the webinar is available on the G-I-N Web site.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory

  • August 29, 2013: Gilenya (fingolimod): FDA is alerting the public that a patient in Europe diagnosed with possible multiple sclerosis (MS) has developed a rare and serious brain infection after taking the drug Gilenya (fingolimod). Patients should not stop taking Gilenya without first discussing any questions or concerns with their health care professionals. FDA is providing this alert while continuing to investigate the PML case, and is working with Gilenya's manufacturer, Novartis, to obtain and review all available information about this occurrence. FDA will communicate its final conclusions and recommendations after the evaluation is complete.

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